A fine and rare gold, enamel, pearl and diamond crucifix pendant

A fine and rare gold, enamel, pearl and diamond crucifix pendant, circa 1600, depicting Christ on the cross, a banner reading INRI above and the skull of Golgotha below, applied with white enamel en ronde bosse, the cross with engraved woodgrain applied with brown basse taille enamel, accented with table-cut diamonds and suspending a pearl, length 4.7cm including pearl pendant, pearl untested, losses to enamel

Cf. Hugh Tait ed. The Art of the Jewellery, a Catalogue of the Hull Grundy Gift to the British Museum, London 1984, pg. 70, catalogue no. 281, for a Spanish crucifix pendant of similar traditional iconography including the INRI banner and the skull of Golgotha, suspending three pearls, applied with basse taille enamel.